Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction

February 2002

Wednesday February 27, 2002 New York Times Bedlam Burning by Geoff Nicholson Review by Richard Eder Tuesday February 26, 2002 New York Times The Doctor's House by Ann Beattie Review by Michiko Kakutani Sunday February 24, 2002 New York Times Book Review Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Review by Tom Gilling Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles Review by John Vernon House of Women by Lynn Freed Review by Kathryn Harrison The Summons by John Grisham Review by Adam Liptak Boys Keep Being Born: Stories by Joan Frank Review by Sarah Ferguson Washington Post Book World Adam and Eve and Pinch Me by Ruth Rendell Review by Dennis Drabelle Hell to Pay by George P. Pelecanos Review by Craig Nova The Analyst by Jon Katzenbach Review by Annie Wedekind Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Review by Aiobheann Sweeney San Francisco Chronicle The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing Review by Haller McAlpin Billie's Kiss by Elizabeth Knox Review by John Freeman The Collected Stories by Joseph Roth Review by Steve Kettmann Burning Marguerite by Elizabeth Inness-Brown Review by Christine Thomas Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl by Kate McCafferty Review by Jennie Yabroff Chicago Tribune Red Dust by Gillian Slove Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet Rapture by Susan Minot Review by Ellen Emry Heltzel Whitegirl by Kate Manning Review by Lynna Williams Philadelphia Inquirer The Execution by Hugo Wilcken Review by Elisa Ung Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett Review by Susan Balee The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing Review by Lionel Shriver LA Times Rapture by Susan Minot Review by Thomas Curwen Discoveries: House of Women by Lynn Freed The Caprices: Stories by Sabine Murray Review by Susan Salter Reynolds First Fiction: The Ivory Coast by Charles Fleming The Stars Can Wait by Jay Basu Wavemaker II by Mary-Beth Hughes Review by Mark Rozzo The Rotter's Club by Jonathan Coe Review by Jonathan Levi Days of Wonder: New and Selected Poems by Brace Schulman Cascadia by Brenda Hillman Changeable Thunder by David Baker Review by Carol Muske Dukes Sunday February 17, 2002 New York Times The Jazz Bird by Craig Holden Review by David Willis McCullough La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl by David Huddle Review by Jane Mendelsohn Me Times Three by Alex Witchel Review by Karen Karbo Tarzan's Tonsillitis by Alfredo Bryce Echenique Review by Suzanne Ruta Books in Brief: Radiance by Carter Scholz Review by Taylor Antrim In Our Stange Gardens by Michel Quint Review by Micahel Porter The Execution by Hugo Wilcken Review by Adam Mazmanian Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards Review by Helen Pitt Fallen Angel by Don J. Snyder Review by Dana Kennedy The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Review by Kera Bolonik Washington Post Book World La Tour Dreams of the Wolf by David Huddle Review by David Huddle The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland Review by Susan Dodd Palladio by Jonathan Dee Review by Donald McCaig Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett Review by Ruth Franklin Fiction: Polar by T.R Perason Just Like Beauty by Lisa Lerner Caprices by Sabina Murray The God Who Begat a Jackal by Nega Mexlekia Review by John Freeman San Francisco Chronicle Insect Dreams; the Half Life of Gregor Samsa by Marc Estrin Review by Dan Cryer The Doctor's House by Ann Beattie Review by Miriam Wolf Achilles by Elizabeth Cook Review by Carmela Ciuraru Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Review by Jennie Yabroff Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard Review by Alan Cheuse The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan Review by Jeanne Cooper Deep in the Shade of Paradise by John DuFresne Review by Josh Emmons Letters to Montgomery Clift by Noel Alumit Review by Kate Washington Leaving Katya by Paul Greenberg Review by Jonathan Kiefer Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell Review by Andrew Roe Philadelphia Inquirer Leaving Katya by Paul Greenberg Review by Carlin Romano Chicago Tribune A Fine Place by Nicholas Montemarano Review by Jeffery Renard Allen Ordinary Life by Elizabeth Berg Review by Shelby Hearon LA Times Homo Zapiens by Victor Pelevin Review by Jonathan Levi The Last Canyon by John Vernon Review by Jonathan Kirsch The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing Review by Nora Eisenberg Thursday February 14, 2002 New York Times 10th Grade by Joseph Weisberg Review by Janet Maslin Tuesday February 12, 2002 New York Times The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Review by Michiko Kakutani Philadelphia Inquirer Depraved Indifference by Gary Indiana Review by Devin D'Andrea Sunday February 10, 2002 New York Times Fair Warning by Robert Olen Butler Review by Richard Eder The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing Review by John Rockwell Bedlam Burning by Geoff Nicholson Review by Marcel Theroux The Clouds Above by Andrew Greig Review by Helen Pitt Limbo, And Other Places I have Lived by Lily Tuck Review by Catherine Lockerbie Washington Post Book World Tishomongo Blues by Elmore Leonard Review by Marc Smirnoff The Doctor's House by Ann Beattie Review by Steven Moore Backpack by Emily Barr Review by Susan Coll Wide Blue Yonder by Jean THompson Review by Jennifer Krauss San Francisco Chronicle Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride Review by Anneli Rufus The Illuminated Soul by Aryeh Lev Stollman Review by Sarah Coleman The Golems of Gotham by Thane Rosenbaum Review by Floyd Skloot Red Dust by Gilliam Slovo Review by Martin Rubin Reviews in Brief: A Fine Place by Nicholas Montemarano Review by Dave DeChristopher The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn Review by Taylor Antrim Beyond Illusions by Duong Thu Huong Review by Kate Washington Chicago Tribune The Seven Ages by Louise Glueck Antebellum Dream Book by Elizabeth Alexander Eunoia by Christian Boek Review by Maureen McLane From the Dust Returned: A Family Remembrance by Ray Bradbury Review by Loren Ghiglione Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett Review by Dan Cryer LA Times A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford Review by Jane Ciabattari Tepper Isn't Going Out by Calvin Trillin Review by Brigitte Frase In Pursuit of a Vanishing Star by Gustaf Sobin Review by Richard Schickel First Fiction: Baroque-A-Nova by Kevin Chong Gone by Martin Roper Searching for Intruders by Stephen Raleigh Byler Review by Mark Rozzo Blues Lessons by Robert Hellenga Review by Thomas Curwen Depraved Indifference by Gary Indiana Review by Jonathan Levi St. Louis Post Dispatch A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford Review by Nancy Shapiro Friday February 8, 2002 New York Times Hester Among the Ruins by Binnie Kirshenbaum Review by Richard Eder Wednesday February 6, 2002 New York Times Me Times Three by Alex Witchel Review by Jenny Lyn Bader Sunday February 3, 2002 New York Times Rapture by Susan Minot Review by Laura Miller Tishomongo Blues by Elmore Leonard Review by Joe Queenan Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett Review by Barry Unsworth The God Who Begat a Jackal by Nega Mezlekia Review by Michael Pye The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins Review by Maggie Galehouse The Pupil: Poems by W.S. Merwin Review by Maggie Galehouse Hotel World by Ali Smith Review by Michael Upchurch The Love of Stones by Tobias Hill Review by Nell Freudemberger 10th Grade by Joseph Weisberg Review by David Kamp Books in Brief: Good as Any: Stories by Timothy A. Westmoreland Review by Katherine Wolff The Phoenix by Henning Boetius Review by Tom Ferrell The Jardin des Plantes by Claude Simon Review by Diane Scharper On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks Review by Julie Gray He Goes, She Goes by Joanna Torrey Review by Dana Kennedy Basket Case by Carl Hiassen Review by Alanna Nash Washington Post Book World I'll Let You Go by Bruce Wagner Review by Sudip Bose Radiance by Carter Scholz Review by Tom Vanderbilt Depraved Indifference by Gary Indiana Review by Daniel Woodrell Insect Dreams by Mark Estrin Review by Alex Abramovich San Francisco Chronicle A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford Review by David Kipen Hotel World by Ali Smith Review by Alexandra Yurkovsky Good As Any by Timothy A. Westmoreland Review by Jonathan Kiefer House of Women by Lynn Freed Review by Tamara Strauss The Darkling by Anna Rabinowitz Review by John Freeman Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived by Lily Tuck Review by Dodie Bellamy Chicago Tribune Red Water by Judith Freeman Review by Ellen Emry Heltzel The Doctor's House by Ann Beattie Review by Abby Frucht Philadelphia Inquirer The Upward Curve of Earth and Heavens by Lester Graves Lennon Review by George Held The Royal Physician's Visit by Per Olov Enquist Review by Frank Wilson LA Times American Son by Brian Ascalon Roley Review by Jonathan Kirsch I'll Let You Go by Bruce Wagner Review by Gary Indiana Beyond Illusions by Duong Thu Huong Review by Judy Lightfoot Up Country by Neslon DeMille Review by Jonathan Shapiro Discoveries: Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride Hell's Bottom, Colorado by Laura Pritchett Review by Susan Salter Reynolds Friday February 1, 2002 New York Times The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing Review by Michiko Kakutani January 2002 List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site